Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 238 186 A Guest Comes From Göttingen

As Rutherford said, the strike didn't last long.

It was originally because of the unfair treatment suffered by coal miners that workers in other occupations across the UK, under the guidance of the trade union federation, staged a sympathy strike in solidarity with coal miners.

Regardless of whether the strike ultimately succeeds or fails, whether the coal miners achieve their goals, this sympathy strike will not last long.

Although everyone is the bottom worker squeezed by the capitalists, and they all went on strike under the guidance of the trade union, but in fact their personal rights have not been greatly violated like coal miners, but they have been silently eroded.

What's more, these workers are the pillars of the family, most of them are young and old, only Dirac-Kapica Chen Muwu Dirac counts on his salary to live alone.

So as the strike lasted longer, more and more workers could not hold on and returned to their previous companies or factories to resume work.

The British government is happy to see this situation, so it fully protects these returning workers, and will never allow capitalist factory owners to retaliate against them.

There is also the organization of strikes. The British Federation of Trade Unions, which is connected in series, has also been influenced by the Labor Party. They are afraid that a few active revolutionaries will really appear during this strike.

Therefore, on May 5th, the British Federation of Trade Unions launched the last negotiation with the British government. When the goal of the strike was not achieved, it still announced the end of the general strike that broke out on May 12th.

With the resumption of work and production of a large number of workers, all walks of life in the UK, especially transportation and heavy industry, quickly returned to the situation before the strike.

Only the coal miners, whose own interests have been seriously damaged, are still fighting the capitalist coal mine owners unrelentingly.

Their strike lasted until November of that winter, before the strike was completely declared a failure.

The policy formulated by the British government before the strike was finally implemented. The wages of miners should be lowered and the working hours should be extended.

From May to November, half a year was in vain, and the strike was fruitless.

It cannot be said that there is no gain. Anyway, as soon as the strike ended, the British government began to amend the law.

By next year, it will be clearly legislated that such sympathy strikes are illegal.

It was not until after World War II that the Labor Party returned to power and the bill prohibiting sympathy strikes was abolished.

In the period of Margaret Thatcher in the 90s, sympathy strikes were finally banned.

After the First World War, the United Kingdom was in a mess.

Although Ireland has been lost, the whole of Britain is dreaming of a heavenly kingdom.

If sympathy strikes are not prohibited, coal miners will strike today and the whole of the UK will be shut down;

Tomorrow the railway workers will go on strike, and the whole of the UK will be shut down again;
Workers at the Houtian Iron and Steel Works;
Dahoutian power plant workers;
……

Damn, how did the country become like this!
In addition to legislation prohibiting sympathy strikes, the British government and news media took the opportunity to publicize that the newly emerging red country on the European continent is a hidden danger to the national security of the United Kingdom.

Gotta have a reason and an excuse for a strike, don't you?

If the fact that the capitalist coal mine owners squeezed the workers and led to the strike cannot be put on the face of it, then the blame can only be blamed on those Sulian people.

Anyway, they also started their careers by relying on the labor movement, and strikes are considered old-fashioned.

They must have brought down the patriotic and law-abiding British!
The rift between Britain, which was afraid of being overthrown, and Su Lian was getting bigger and bigger because of this general strike.

In 1927 next year, because of the Northern Expeditionary Army supported by the Soviet Union, the old warlords supported by Europe and the United States on the Central Plains battlefield retreated steadily, violating their interests.

Therefore, in the same year when the Prohibition of Strikes Act was promulgated, the Conservative Party government announced the severance of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Anyway, when the diplomatic relations were established two years ago, it was also the ghost of Macdonald and his British government.

Chen Muwu's signed article in the "British Worker" in support of the coal miners actually did not have much impact during the strike.

Because the editorial office of the "Worker" is in London, the strike has paralyzed the transport system across the UK.

In addition, Churchill used the power of the government to transfer most of the newsprint.

The combination of several reasons has led to the fact that the "Worker's News" not only has a small circulation, but most of the newspapers are only circulated in the city of London and a few nearby satellite cities.

But the "British Gazette" edited by Churchill is different. The publication and printing of this newspaper is backed by the British government.

Not only that, but the British government commandeered or bought several cars and trucks, and even a few contraption airplanes, in order to be able to send newspapers with government views against the strike from London to all parts of the country.

The largest daily circulation of the "Worker's Daily" was only 70 copies, while the largest single-day circulation of the "Gazette" reached 200 million copies.

But when the strike ended, the popularity of that article rose again.

The "Times" and "Daily Mail" could only operate poorly by reducing the layout because the printing workers also participated in the strike and the newsprint was requisitioned by the government during the strike.

After the society gradually returned to normal operation, newspapers large and small in the UK also began to exert their strength. They have accumulated too much news in these days.

Chen Muwu's article, of course, is something that cannot be avoided.

The well-informed people of the Cambridge Apostolic Society learned that their Brother Chen had made a big news during the strike.

Some people think that he is not authentic. Before asking him, he has been hiding it all the time, but he secretly submitted the manuscript behind everyone's back.

More people think that although the strike failed, he deserves praise for speaking out for the coal miners.

They also learned about the suppression of strikes in China, and felt ashamed for their own country.

However, apart from the members of the Apostolic Society, most people in Cambridge University learned of Dr. Chen's actions during the strike through reading or reprinting this article in major London newspapers, quoting it in full, or excerpting from the central point of view. doing.

Anyway, the strike has passed, and most people don't feel much about it.

After all, Dr. Chen is still a young man. He may have seen the strike and felt emotionally affected by the situation. He thought of the situation in his hometown, so he expressed his feelings.

It can also be seen from the length setting of this article that he only used a few lines of text to express his support for the striking workers.

Most of the rest of the content is telling readers about the strikes of the working class in China.

Those capitalists are worse than those in the UK!
Of course, the role played by the British in the concession authorities in this strike is disgraceful, and it is really not a gentleman's behavior.

Some people were not so calm after watching the news reports.

Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, after reading the report in The Times, felt that the shredded tobacco in the pipe he was holding in his mouth suddenly became tasteless.

He has repeatedly emphasized over the years that the laboratory is a sacred place, where experiments and academic research can only be done, and useless politics must not be chatted about, let alone radical red ideas.

Take all precautions, there are still some young people who have been abused in the laboratory, but fortunately they have not affected their studies and experiments. Rutherford, who has a knife and a bean curd heart but protects the calf, has no choice but to turn a blind eye .

In contrast, Rutherford liked Chen Muwu even more.

Dr. Chen has never participated in those messy things, he is humble, he has achieved a lot in experiments and theory, and he can also make money for the laboratory.

If everyone was as reassuring as Dr. Chen, he wouldn't be smoking so much every day.

In the end, Dr. Chen, who was the most worry-free, became the one who worried him the most during this strike.

Rutherford finally understood why he was in such a hurry to send the paper to the Royal Society in London, and asked Kapitsa to drive him by name.

His relationship with Kapitsa is so good, he must have been brainwashed by this restless Sulian person long ago!

Rutherford was very angry this time, and even wanted to have someone call Chen Muwu to his office immediately, and scold him head and face.

Anger is anger, but reason overcame his anger.

After the strike ended, train transport has also resumed.

The previously seized parts finally arrived in Cambridge, and the assembly of the generator was back on track.

The generator, and the particle accelerator based on the generator, are a powerful weapon in the future experimental research of the Cavendish Laboratory, and there must be no mistakes.

And Chen Muwu is the ultimate person in charge of this project.

Although I don't understand why he insisted on being involved in the strike, whether it's Cambridge University or the UK, if someone dares to take advantage of this matter to attack Chen Muwu, then Rutherford will definitely be the first to refuse.

To put it mildly, without Chen Muwu, there might be mistakes in the manufacturing process of the generator.

On a larger scale, without Chen Muwu, it is still unknown whether Cavendish Laboratory can continue its brilliance in the future.

No matter how big things happen, he must save this good student to death.

Rutherford's worries are not unfounded.

Not to mention the middle class, capitalists and stakeholders in the UK who think that Chen Muwu doesn't know how to be grateful after reading the newspapers, and discredit the British.

Only narrowing the scope to Cambridgeshire, there are also people who want to make a fuss about this matter.

For more than a year, Old Thomson, the dean of Trinity College, has been seeking a professorship at Cambridge University for Chen Muwu, who has graduated with a Ph.D. for two years.

It's just that no matter what reason he applied to the school's review committee every time, he always got the same result of being rejected.

The one who got in the way was, of course, Lord Balfour, the chancellor who was refuted by Chen Muwu when he accompanied the astronomers to visit the Cambridge University Observatory last year.

The old English mentality of Zhengmi Ziqi made him look down on the Chinese from the beginning to the end.

And everyone will respect yourself as the former prime minister, earl and chancellor of Cambridge University. Why do you, a little Chen Muwu, dare to speak rudely to yourself?

Although Belfort, the mascot school supervisor, has no real power, he can only sign the proposal after deliberation and approval by the members of the review committee, but not veto the proposal.

But if he wants to fail a proposal that does not affect the school's policies, those committee members will still sell him to a certain extent.

It is not a solution to just passively defend like now and reject every professor application made by old Thomson.

Belfort felt that he had to take the initiative to drive the Chinese out of Cambridge University in order to get rid of his anger once and for all.

The peculiar hypocrisy of an English gentleman made him always want to find a justifiable reason.

Then Chen Muwu's article during the strike brought a big gift to Belfort.

At the next meeting, he must bring this matter up!

The impact of this strike is not limited to the UK.

Travelers entering and leaving the UK from other countries have also been affected.

Von Neumann, who was sent by Hilbert to Cambridge University to ask for directions, had left the University of Göttingen long ago.

But on his trip to the west this time, he stayed in France for a long time.

The strike caused a wide-scale suspension of ferries across the English Channel, and only a minimum of navigation between Britain and France was maintained.

Anyway, the traffic in the UK is also paralyzed. Even if he queues up to board a ship and cross the strait, what awaits him is just another place to continue waiting for the train that will resume at an unknown time.

Von Neumann simply gave himself a vacation at the seaside of Calais, and waited until the strike was over before crossing the sea to England.

Chen Muwu, who didn't know that there would be a visitor soon, just as Rutherford thought, once again devoted himself to the research and development of the generator.

No one will pay attention to his recent paper published in the "Proceedings of Natural Science". The attention of the whole of Cambridge and even the whole of Britain is put on the article he published at the same time.

As the protagonist, Chen Muwu behaved calmly, as if he had never participated in the strike that just ended.

It wasn't until he went to the assembly site in person that he finally knew why Cockcroft said the construction period might be greatly delayed.

It is true that I used a piece of silk as a conveyor belt in the model, but the reason for doing so is simply because silk is easy to obtain.

But if it is used in a real generator, why should it be enlarged completely according to the model?

For a suitable silk conveyor belt, it takes several months to order from China without looking for a substitute for silk.

Then why not simply start with planting mulberry and raising silkworms?

How could this Cockcroft be so brainy as if he were a German!
A German is a German, an inexhaustible but smart German who came to Cambridge from London.

(End of this chapter)